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The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell 9781897535066
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'The Devil You Know' is the follow-up volume to Farrell's acclaimed debut collection, 'Sugar Bush & Other Stories'. The stories in 'The Devil You Know' deal with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing,... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the... -
Canadian Literature by Faye Hammill 9780748621613
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on... -
The Borders of Nightmare: Fiction of John Richardson by Michael Hurley 9780802069405
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02John Richardson was Canada's first native-born poet-novelist and 'The Father of Canadian Literature.' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson's fiction rather than of his life... -
Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words by Cinzia Scarpino 9783631894408
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.04Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America's most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of... -
Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World by Anne Enright 9781787335776
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life'Anne Enright might just be Ireland’s greatest living writer' The... -
Cereus Blooms at Night: The Booker-Longlisted Queer Classic by Shani Mootoo 9781784878320
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch-------Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no... -
Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in Play by Karl Fugelso 9781843846482
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve... -
New Directions: Writing Post 1990 by Fiona Tolan 9781408204771
RRP: £11.54Booksplease Price: £9.50A York Notes Companion for students of contemporary literature, this volume looks at the literature of our own times, shaped by recent experiences from millennial anxieties to the events of 9/11... -
A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations by Charles Baxter 9780393057713
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £31.83William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were... -
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kroller 9781316612408
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever.'It's been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only... -
A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion 9781935597063
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72"McQuestion writes with a sharp eye and a sure voice, and as a reader, I was willing to go wherever she wanted to take me." -Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel Free spirit Skyla Plinka... -
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman 9781805330479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The best short story writer in the world' Susan Hill 'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' Sunday Times The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has... -
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett 9781324036012
Booksplease Price: £13.30The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional... -
ACROSS the RIVER by Texas Review Press 9781933896359
Booksplease Price: £4.26Set over the course of one winter at a hospital in Washington, "Across the River" is a linked series of stories about the trials of the body and their meaning for the spirit. From the psychology of... -
The Starlings of Bucharest by Sarah Armstrong
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director and then attend the Moscow film... -
Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women by Roxanne Rimstead 9780802044945
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £55.04"The Remnants of Nation" is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture in the larger context of economic and literary... -
Places in the Dark: Short Stories Lidmila Kábrtová 9781803095035
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A collection of short stories that intertwine the lives of six women, revealing the profound realities beneath their ordinary existence. Following her divorce, Tereza shuts off emotionally and flits... -
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written David Miller 9781035924912
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.42Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the... -
The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman 9781988784793
Booksplease Price: £14.44Winner of the 2022 ReLit AwardsFinalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and... -
Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women by Roxanne Rimstead 9780802082701
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32"The Remnants of Nation" is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture in the larger context of economic and literary... -
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women by Victoria Hislop
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.66A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists. Witty,... -
Understanding Alice Adams by Bryant Mangum 9781611179330
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £15.46An illuminating study of an award-winning writer who captured the complex challenges twentieth-century women faced in their struggle for independence. In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum... -
The Canadian Short Story - Interpretations by Reingard M. Nischik 9781571134790
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.71Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.68'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
A Lonely Man by Chris Power 9780571341214
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.22A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021A Metro Book of the Year 2021A Washington Post '10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2021''A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' SUNDAY TIMES'A... -
The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice MunroSpanning... -
The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada by Linda M. Morra
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for... -
No Great Mischief: A Novel by Alistair MacLeod 9780393341195
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it. ... -
Instructions for a Funeral by David Means 9780571330966
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the most talented writers of short fiction in America. . .' James Wood, New YorkerFollowing the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means returns... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
River of Fire and Other Stories by Chong-hui O 9780231160667
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.48O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal... -
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff 9780747597438
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Our Story Begins combines twenty-one of Tobias Wolff's classic stories with ten potent new works, spanning three decades and confirming Wolff's status as a master of the genre. These stories of war,... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest... -
Selected Essays by Clark Blaise 9781897231500
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.09Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan... -
Until We Have Faces: Stories Michael Nye 9781684425051
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.60In a style reminiscent of John Cheever and Alice Munro, Michael Nye's second collection of stories, Until We Have Faces, contend with transfixing themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of... -
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice MunroA woman... -
Lanyard by Peter Sansom 9781800170209
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of...